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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Preservation of Oligarchies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle believes that people should be trained for what?
(a) What they are best suited to do.
(b) What they think they want to do.
(c) What their ideal place in society is.
(d) What their parents want them to do.

2. Unarmed and lightly armed combat is typically the preserve of whom, according to Aristotle?
(a) The poor.
(b) The middle-class.
(c) The women.
(d) The young men.

3. This type of constitution is not limited by actual conditions and is not required to function in practice.
(a) Unique.
(b) Promissory.
(c) Ideal.
(d) Descriptive.

4. What does Aristotle calls the pool from which oligarchies draw their officials?
(a) Politically powerful.
(b) Power-groups.
(c) Political elite.
(d) Inherited positions.

5. Aristotle believes that in most societies, there is numerically more of what type of citizens than any other?
(a) Adult poor.
(b) Servant poor.
(c) Enslaved poor.
(d) Free poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle says that a government will have problems when more of its people are interested in profit than in what?

2. Aristotle says that when people of wealth are cast into poverty, it is a breeding ground for what?

3. According to Aristotle, the end in a democracy is the best interests of whom?

4. Aristotle says that the second greatest cause of crime are desires that reach beyond what?

5. Aristotle says that there can be problems when more of the citizens are attracted to profit than to what?

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